The village is located on the banks of the Seine estuary, and was the crossing point of the river before the Pont de Normandie opened.

This has now been converted into holiday cottages which are mainly owned by Top Sun Ltd. Berville-sur-Mer ( "Berville on the sea") is a French commune located in the north-west of the Eure department in Normandy on the right bank (south) of the Seine estuary and have a small and uninhabited strip on the left bank.

Berville is part of natural region of Lieuvin and included in the Natural regional reserve of the Norman Seine loops (Parc naturel régional des Boucles de la Seine normande).

The name of the village is attested in a latinized final form of Bervilla in 1077 (Lisieux obituary), Bervilla super Secanam in 1234 (Jumièges cartulary)), Berville sur Seine in 1738, Saint-Mélaigne-de-Berville in 1868 (directory of the Norman association).

Composed in -ville with the old sense of "rural domain", preceded by the Germanic personal name Bero.